Well, a while ago the slave cylinder in the M3 went south again. The last slave cylinder was about a year old but for a car that I drive 6000 miles a year in that’s pretty short. I’ve been buying the parts from Turner Motorsports and they’ve been okay but I’ll admit to being a little pissed at having to do this again. When I was a kid I didn’t mind being on my back underneath a car as the blood and strength drained away from my arms. Nowadays, working under a car just brings me closer to the day that I buy a lift. Anyhow thanks to my neighbor I was able to get the thing installed and again I get to see how nice the M3 is. For the past three weeks I’ve been getting my BMW kick from my wife’s 325i and after two hours of driving the M3 I just have to say that there is no comparison. That’s saying something as I own a rather old E36 M3 and my wife has a very cherry E46 325i.
Regional qualifier
Anyone who knows me in person knows that I play darts. I’m proud to say that we won our division last year. This was a rea real accomplishment for me, it’s the first time I’ve won as Captain. The one flaw in this victory was pointed out by my friend Pete. At the final Captain’s meeting he congratulated me but then asked why I didn’t play a single leg in the finals. Well, the answer is that I spent the last three weeks of the regular season and all of the playoffs concetrating on winning. My team has made it to the playoffs with a good seed every season. We’ve made it to the finals three times. In each of those failed trips to the playoffs and finals I got out Captained. The other teams were usually better than us but not so much so that we would fail so easily. This was especially true last fall. The other team was good, (a special shout out to Gee) but even if we lost we should have had more points at the end of the night.
Concentrating so much on not getting out played at Captain cost me my focus on my game. I knew it during the finals. It really hit home at the last regional qualifier that I played. I think that I need to be where I was two or three years ago. For some reason I’ve gotten it into my head that I don’t need to practice at darts to be good in league. My friend Garry says that if I praticed I’d be deadly. Let’s see if he’s right….
Exercise
I rode my bike today. It was the first time in a while which is bad. I went from Home to the yacht club to the beach and then back home. Maybe it was 10 miles. I’m gonna check with Google Earth later. I’m a little tired right now. Once I got to the yacht club I tried to figure out if I had spent 1/3 or 1/2 of my energy. I guess I was between 1/2 and 1/3 and figured that the extra three miles to Silver Sands Beach would probably fit in. I was barely right. Still you have sto stretch yourself once and again.